
Kodomo no Kuni
"[I]Kodomo no kuni was one of the leading artwork-featuring journals for children founded and published in 23 volumes and 265 issues from January1922 to March 1949...Kodomo no kuni in its early days represented an attempt rare anywhere in the world to commercially market a journal targeted at the general public and devoted to a high-minded perspective on and an enlightened ideal of preschool education. This Gallery makes available the precious record of the creative forces in 1920s urban Japanese culture led by editors and artists who believed that art had an important role to play in the education of children."[/I]
